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The Beach - Australia's Culture Portal

Cable Beach, Broome, north-west Kimberley Coast, Western Australia. Most of Australia's population lives close to the coastline and the beach has long occupied a special place in the Australian identity. Based on this definition, the Coastal Studies Uni...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

The Heidelberg School: Sydney, its beaches, the harbour and the Hawkesbury - Australia's Culture Portal

These painters, amongst them Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Charles Conder, were known by this name because of the artists' camps they shared in areas around Melbourne, including Heidelberg. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of ...

Heidelberg School - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal

Today, the term refers to a number of artists, including Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, who painted scenes 'en plein air' (in the open air) of Australia, particularly in Melbourne and its surrounds. Over the years they were joined b...

Australian painters - Australia's Culture Portal

John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...

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Tom Roberts Festival   (more info)

The Tom Roberts Festival honours one of Australia's pre-Federation artists who is credited as 'the father of Australian landscape painting'. The website provides full details of the event, and information about Tom Roberts.

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All NGV Podcasts   (website National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) )

> http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/files/content/ngv_tezuka_001.mp3 Mon Nov 13 2006 00:00:00 GMT+1100 (EST) Philip Brophy talks about the history of manga. > http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/files/content/ngv_tezuka_005.mp3 Mon Nov 20 2006 00:00:00 GMT+1100 (EST) Phili...

NGV Collection - Tom ROBERTS   (website National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) )

Born: 09 March 1856 Dorchester, Dorset, England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tom ROBERTS First sketch for Shearing the rams ...

Port Jackson Press - Tom Roberts - Portrait of Alexander E. Montgomery   (website Port Jackson Press )

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OCEAN to OUTBACK Australian Landscape Paintings 1850â~"1950 | Tom ROBERTS | A quiet day on Darebin Creek   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

In the same year that Tom Roberts painted this countryside scene of Darebin Creek on the outskirts of Melbourne,he had returned to Australia from studies and travel in Europe and England. Roberts had absorbed the plein-airapproach to painting, a techniqu...

OCEAN to OUTBACK Australian Landscape Paintings 1850â~"1950 | Tom ROBERTS | A Sunday afternoon   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

By 1882 a railway had been constructed between Melbourne and the township of Box Hill, and in 1885 Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Louis Abrahams first visited the area to paint. Roberts made a number of works in this area, such as his well known The...

ABC Local: Australia Wide - Painting   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Turner to Monet | Tom ROBERTS | Allegro con brio: Bourke Street west   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

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Turner to Monet | Tom ROBERTS | 'Evening, when the quiet east flushes faintly at the sun's last look'   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

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OCEAN to OUTBACK Australian Landscape Paintings 1850â~"1950 | Tom ROBERTS | The quarry, Maria Island   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

In February and March of 1926 Tom Roberts spent six weeks painting in Tasmania. During this period he visited Maria Island, a former penal station and mining township located across the Mercury Passage off the east coast of the main island. The quarry, M...

The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Tom ROBERTS | Marquis of Linlithgow   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

John Adrian Louis Hope (1860 1908) was the first Governor-General of Australia, from 1901 to 1902. On his return to Britain in 1902 he was created Marquis of Linlithgow. Tom Roberts painted this portrait after Linlithgow had returned to Britain, showing...

Turner to Monet | Tom ROBERTS | Slumbering sea, Mentone   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

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The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Tom ROBERTS | Madame Hartl   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

Madame Ruby Hartl wore this spectacular Italianate costume of La Tornabuoni to the Chelsea Arts Club Annual Costume Ball at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1909. Towards the end of that year Roberts asked whether Hartl would pose for him in her ...

OCEAN to OUTBACK Australian Landscape Paintings 1850â~"1950 | Tom ROBERTS | A quiet day on Darebin Creek   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

In the same year that Tom Roberts painted this countryside scene of Darebin Creek on the outskirts of Melbourne,he had returned to Australia from studies and travel in Europe and England. Roberts had absorbed the plein-airapproach to painting, a techniqu...

The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Francis WOOD | Tom Roberts   (website National Gallery of Australia (NGA) )

Francis Derwent Wood s privately produced bust of his friend, the Australian painter Tom Roberts, is an affectionate and insightful portrait of the older artist. Roberts expression is alert and inquisitive and he is depicted as though momentarily turning...